Lori Desrosiers grew up on the banks of the Hudson River in NY, but now calls Westfield, Massachusetts her home. A chapbook, Three Vanities, was published by Pudding House Press (2009). She publishes Naugatuck River Review, a journal of narrative poetry, and also Poetry News, an e-newsletter of poetry-related events in the CT/Mass. region. She teaches English at Westfield State College and earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing/Poetry from New England College.